Jess JR Creaden

Jesus fucking Christ. I keep seeing authors on Threads asking readers how many sex scenes they should put in their books. “What would you prefer?” WTF? Your characters/plot should inform how much sex there is, not randos. Your book is not Burger King. Readers do not need to have it their way.

Somehow in the past hour, an hour has passed

I thought we'd all agreed to stop this nonsense

I want this for us

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To help celebrate one year of The Moon the Sun Forgot, from now until its publication date (March 4), enter on Goodreads to win one of five copies: tinyurl.com/mtjw4h93 📚🙌

Stay tuned for more as we get closer to each anniversary!

#goodreadsgiveaway #canadianpublishers

Graphic with the cover of The Moon the Sun Forgot with text saying "2 Weeks Until The Moon the Sun Forgot turns one year old"

Graphic with the cover of Moon Dust in My Hairnet and text saying "2 months until Moon Dust in My Hairnet turns 2 years old"

Only two weeks from now The Moon the Sun Forgot by BJ Wagner turns one, and in just over two months we'll celebrate the two year anniversary of Moon Dust in My Hairnet by @jesscreaden.bsky.social!

This barn needs 65 more people with $50 to share to get over the finish line and we need to do it asaptually.

Please chip in and share if you can. 🌻

If they do leave soon, that will mean one more month of countless people sheltering at home, one more month of rent and utilities and food and medical care that needs to be raised. That's millions of dollars of emergency funds just to keep people fed and housed. Do not look away.

With my work being art, productivity for me looks like I'm driven solely by whimsy.
I mostly am.
It's the only way I know how to be.

Here is what we are seeing: that every time we have a need, people are leaping to volunteer. To volunteer for admin work. To volunteer to help us get filament. To volunteer to help us pay postage so we can keep sending ABSOLUTELY FREE whistles to anyone who needs them to keep their community safe.

One huge reason I'm excited for Starfleet Academy is because it continues the 32nd century setting from the final few seasons of Star Trek: Discovery (which remains my favorite 21st century Trek, esp. seasons 3 and 4.)

I love it when Star Trek keeps exploring further and further into the future.

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

Breaking NYT:

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.

That is a war crime called "perfidy."

a small real thing you can do right now. Bree’s squad just sent 200 of these to my stepmom for the anti-ICE ministry at our church. you can chip in for materials and supplies at the links below

Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #4 After a brief hiatus due to an unexpected illness, I am back with the last round of SSBA Semi-finalists before I start featuring the Finalis...

We almost missed posting about this, but Melody, 2025 SSBA Influencer, finished up her semi-finalist features recently. You can find the last in the series with @jesscreaden.bsky.social and @dayofthemutants.bsky.social here:

#SSBA #SSBA2025

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Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year.

Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

333 days free of cigarettes (yesterday)!!!

#WriteHive Mentorship Pairing #16 author JR Creaden (@jesscreaden.bsky.social) will mentor JM George for her middle grade horror THE MIDNIGHT ZOO.

#WriteHive Mentorship Pairing #15 author AJ Super (@ajsuper.com) will mentor RF Daniels (@rfdwrites.bsky.social) for their adult science fiction novel STARS IN BLOOM

Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.

Donate to Our Safety Net Was A Mirage, organized by Jess Creaden **EMERGENCY UPDATE 12/22/2025** The plan collapsed. We lost our home with no funds, no r… Jess Creaden needs your support for Our Safety Net Was A Mirage

The plan collapsed. We lost our home with no funds, no relocation, and no clear way forward.
Please share, donate, and include us in your thoughts or prayers?

gofund.me/0776eca72

Donate to Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?, organized by Jess Creaden **EMERGENCY UPDATE** I feel humiliated asking for money this way, but I'm … Jess Creaden needs your support for Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?

I'm out of spoons, options, & the medicine barely holding my bubble of sanity& hope together runs out in a few days
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up

Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #4 After a brief hiatus due to an unexpected illness, I am back with the last round of SSBA Semi-finalists before I start featuring the Finalis...

Back after a brief hiatus due to unexpected illness! Check out my final post featuring the SSBA semi-finalists:

JR Creaden's Moon Dust in my Hairnet and Em Reed's More Bugs.

@jesscreaden.bsky.social @dayofthemutants.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social

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I'm 300 days free of cigarettes today!!!!!!

Donate to Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?, organized by Jess Creaden **EMERGENCY UPDATE** I feel humiliated asking for money this way, but I'm … Jess Creaden needs your support for Between Ruin and Rebirth: Help us hold on?

I'm out of spoons, options, & the medicine barely holding my bubble of sanity& hope together runs out in a few days
If you can help or are willing to share this w/someone who might be able to, please do
This isn't me; I'm the person on the other side of this despair waiting for my body to catch up

Is there a signup sheet to make sure Thom Yorke gets a hug whenever needed? Is that something folks are working on?

Mister Owl from the classic Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop commercia, on the verge of chomping into a Tootsie Pop, captioned "I will find a center in you - I will chew it up and leave", a line from Tool's "Sober"

Support African Translation Project African Translation Project / November: Month 8 / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2870, 43% / isiZulu translation is now funded / Kiswahili translation is cur...

The small African press, writers, and translators we are funding have a very cool plan for these two books you're making happen. But we need to close up the funding on this second book. Can you help? Last stretch! #AfricanTranslationProject #AfricanLiterature #HumanTranslation

Fall is fully here
Finally
I don't dance but I do
Circles around this fire
The one that fed us
Never so well
As my soul